Probability and Theistic ExplanationClarendon Press, 1990 - 195 páginas In the past twenty years, interest in the epistemic status of religious belief has greatly increased. Leading this revival are the philosophers Basil Mitchell and Richard Swinburne, who believe that {eligious belief can be justified using inductive "best explanation" arguments. However, while Swinburne's approach is formal, using the calculus of Bayes Theorem, Mitchell's is informal, based on his recognition of judgment as central to such an assessment. This book is the first full length comparison of these two men and their styles of justifying religious belief. The first half addresses the issues of rationality, endorsing Mitchell's methodology; the second half explores the concept of theistic explanation and demonstrates that the ontological argument has a place in the comprehensive explanatory power of theism. --PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Evaluative Criteria and Bayess Theorem | 33 |
Informal Reasoning and Religious Belief 1 | 56 |
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